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Well, you all remember how we won the Columbia game. We moved up into national prominence overnight. It always makes me laugh when I think that everyone forgot to listen to Coach Valpey's words: "We're far from being a team yet." The most significant single factor towards helping the Crimson in that opening game was discovery of a young man named Phil Isenberg, a backer...
Both men, Harvard's youthful Art Valpey and Yale's jovial Herman Hickman have had their troubles this year in their first crack at bigtime head-coaching. Of the two, Hickman probably got the most sleep last night, at Eli headquarters in the Hotel Bellevue. Here...
...Although groundskeepers covered the Stadium sward with canvas last night, the rain which weather forecasters say will continue throughout today may eventually mean slippery footing and a wet ball--which would hurt Valpey's precise, ballet-like single wing spinners and pitchouts more than it would affect Hickman's straight-ahead T attack...
Hickman and Valpey both look for a high-scoring game. This means that Emil Drvaric and Billy Booe may get a chance to match toes against each other. Booe, a 146-pound, five-foot six senior from Shelton, Conn., has kicked 27 straight points after touchdown, six at the end of last year and 21 this fall. Drvaric, considered the "Babe Ruth" of collegiate kickoff and point-after artists, has converted 12 times for the Crimson this year. He is one of 14 Seniors, including the Chipper, who will be playing their last game of football for the Crimson today
Whether the boys kick or not, the coaches, Art Valpey included, can't rest easy until Gelotte delivers the goods. Valpey wanted last Saturday's films, for instance, on the same night. So when the timekeeper waved goodbye around 4 p.m., Gelotte scrambled down from his 50-yard line press box perch, and rushed the films to a waiting local processor...